The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-08-19
DALLAS TEXAS FRIDAY AUGUST 49, 1887.
The Texas State Fair and Expo
sitiOn.


which we extract this morning as fol-
lows:
The First Annual Fair and Exposition of
the CONSOLIDATED Texas State Fair and Dal-
las Exposition, which opens Thursday, Oc-
tober Goth, 1887, will far exceed In merit the
most eXtravagant expectations, and will
surpass in thoroughness and variety any
exhibition and entertainment ever before
given in the southwest
The Exposition Department will open
October Goth, and continue to November
9th, inclusive +; thereby giving to exhibit
ors ample time in which 20 display each and
every article to the large concourse of yis-
itors who will be drawn to our city by the
combined features of the Fair and EXposi-
ton rs well as the variety of entertainments
provided by the management, regardless
of expense
The Live Stock show will begin promptly
on October oath, and continue from day TO
day until and including Saturday, October
10Th, after which time breeders and owners
may remove from the grounds such OF their
stock as they may have disposed by pri-
vate sales or may wish to send back home.
The regular auction sales will begin on
Monday, October 8lst, and continue from
day to day until close OF FAIR and EXPOSE
tion.
The Racing Department will be open on
Monday, October 3lst, promptly at 2 p. m,
and continue from day to day until and in
cludirg November 9Th.
Full programme of each day will issued
later, as a supplement, giving the various
attractions provided by the management for
the entertainment Of visitors.
During the past year the management
have spent over $4,000 IN the enlargement
of their grounds and making many useful
improvements, which will add much to
their beauty and attractiveness.
A beautiful Machinery Park has been
laid OIL, in which lots Of suitable size are
offered free of cost TO manufacturers and
dealers for exhibition purposes, upon which
to erect their own buildings.
The Race Course, which was pronounced
by horsemen last fall to have but few
equals, has been thorougly worked all win
ter, and stands now the equal of any in the
land. In addition to this track running
track has been built inside OF the trotting
track, to be used as working track, par
ticularly for runners.
Adjoining the roomy grand stand tasty
club house Is being constructed and fitted
up with all modern improvements.
To the stable accommodations OF last
year, one hundred roomy box stalls for
horses, and one hundred open stalls for
cattle, have been added, thereby furnishing
for the coming season accommodations for
1900 head of horses and cattle and 500 each
of sheep and hogs.
One hundred and nineteen box stalls, II
xl4 each, comprise the race stable, and are
set aside in anticipation Of the noted horses
that will participate in the fall meeting to
contest for the liberal premiums offered by
the Jockey Club management, as shown in
the race programme.
The success OF the spring meeting, which
closed on April last, the fine condition OF
the horses, and the time made by those
which were wintered here, established this
course AZ the winter home OF the horse
men, and to meet all requirements three
miles of graveled pixies have been built in
side OF the grounds, upon which horses
may be worked In any weather, as IT never
grows too cold in this section TO prevent
outdoor exercises.
The liberal premium list for 1887, footing
up nearly $4,000, together with transporta-
tion facilities SO literally granted by all
railroads leading to and traversing Texas,
will make the coming Fair and Exposition
a memorable event In the Associations his
tory.
The large area of our State, its mild ana
healthful climate, Its wealth Of minerals,
coal, stone and timber, the varied products
of its soil, and its peculiar adaptability to
stock raising, invite alike the capitalists, the
manufacturer, the miner, the farmer and
the stock breeder, and it is the aim OF the
management, with the assistance of the dill
ferent counties in the State, TO so group to-
gether the exhibits from each county, at
the coming Fair and Exposition, that the
visitor from abroad may, In few hours
time and for a few dollars in money, see
Texas condensed, select his locality and
make his investments; and to this end,
while exhibitors are cordially invited from
every State and section, an earnest appeal
is hereby made to every county in Texas to
prepare its exhibit and lend its aid to place
Texas before the public as 1t truly is, the
Banner State of the Union.
SYDNEY SMITH, Secretary.